[Wamvan] Harsha's brilliant interview on CBC

[Harsha W.]

hey someone sent me the podcast version
http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/podcasts/bcearlyedition_20110928_20986.mp3

> Does anyone have a clip we can see?
>
> Congrats Harsha!
>
> Joanna
>
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Harsha W. <harsha at resist.ca> wrote:
>
>> thanks frieda. much more eloquent summary than i think i actually pulled
>> off
>>
>> > Heard Harsha interviewed by Rick Cluff on CBC about 8:15 this morning.
>> > She
>> > was great!  In a very few minutes, she cut through all the BS about
>> the
>> > missing women inquiry. Basically, what I got from it: 1) the inquiry
>> has
>> > turned into police lawyering up and protecting their own butts - this
>> has
>> > made it into an adversarial process, 2) there are women living on the
>> DTES
>> > still today who knew what happened on the Pickton farm and the police
>> > didn't
>> > want to hear it then and apparently don't want it to come out now, 3)
>> the
>> > inquiry was structured to be adversarial - if the police didn't have
>> > lawyers, the women who could testify wouldn't be requiring lawyers
>> either
>> > -
>> > as it is, the police lawyers would eat these vulnerable witnesses
>> alive,
>> > 4)
>> > these women who have real information about what happened on the
>> ground
>> > need
>> > to be treated as part of the category of "victims and their families"
>> who
>> > are being provided legal counsel by the province, 5) what kind of
>> > protection
>> > will the women have afterwards if they testify?, 6) the women and
>> their
>> > organizations are the ones who've been working for decades to get this
>> > inquiry - they are the most committed of all to having it, and the
>> fact
>> > that
>> > they are being marginalized and can't safely testify is destroying the
>> > potential of the inquiry.  Cluff dragged out everything the government
>> and
>> > the other press have been saying and she demolished it.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Frieda Werden, Series Producer
>> > WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service www.wings.org
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